Better phrasing (I checked the linked source article in the Lancet) would be: "researchers found that 55·5% of deaths from police violence between 1980 and 2018 were misclassified"
It would also have been good to provide the numerator and denominator: "The Lancet estimates 17,100 of 30,800 were misclassified."
The headline is good and provides the numerator:
> More than 17,000 deaths caused by police have been misclassified since 1980
(Edit: Added clarification as to why I think this is weird confusing, with the full data from the article and suggestions for how NPR could have written this more clearly.)
A police person has to assume that their life is at risk if they are overpowered during an assault since there is a gun involved. Attacking a cop is a life or death struggle - they have to assume you are trying to get their gun.
By that logic, and seeing how far more people are killed by police than police officers are killed by people, anyone getting arrested would have a better claim to be at risk of death.
An arrest is not the same as a physical struggle... Anyway, given there are ~10 million arrests a year + 50 million more interactions, and 100s of millions of guns in the US, there's going to be a lot of people that decide to fight back. The fact that people like you are creating a culture were illegally resisting arrest is actually an ethical/political statement contributes to this.
Running away is resisting arrest and doesn’t endanger the cop.
It’s shocking how you moved the goalposts from death, to conflict, to running away as justification for death.
Also, if your comparing numbers cops successfully kill around a thousand people per year and attempt to kill significantly more. Talking about number of interactions let alone guns is a meaningless number.
That's actually evading arrest - not the same thing. My point is that if you try and fight someone with a gun, don't be surprised if something bad happens.
That's a weird (and confusing) way to phrase it.
Better phrasing (I checked the linked source article in the Lancet) would be: "researchers found that 55·5% of deaths from police violence between 1980 and 2018 were misclassified"
It would also have been good to provide the numerator and denominator: "The Lancet estimates 17,100 of 30,800 were misclassified."
The headline is good and provides the numerator:
> More than 17,000 deaths caused by police have been misclassified since 1980
(Edit: Added clarification as to why I think this is weird confusing, with the full data from the article and suggestions for how NPR could have written this more clearly.)